In Gujarat, Governor Acharya Devvrat on Thursday administered the oath of office to 10 cabinet ministers and 14 ministers of state, including five ministers of state with independent charge at the Raj Bhavan. Former Assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi – who stepped down from the post earlierThursady -- and former state BJP president Jitu Vaghani were part of the ministry.The new cabinet of CM Bhupendra Patel was sworn in at 1.30 PM. Some new faces were also inducted after the first reshuffle of the Gujarat cabinet.
Kanubhai Desai, Kiritsinh Rana, Naresh Patel, Pradip Parmar, Arjunsinh Chauhan, Rajendra Trivedi, Jitu Vaghani, Rushikesh Patel, Purnesh Modi, Raghavji Patel were among those who took the oath. Harsh Sanghvi, Jagdish Panchal, Brijesh Merja, Jitu Choudhary, Manisha Vakil were sworn in as ministers of state with independent charge. The removal of Nitin Patel the former deputy chief minister from the Cabinet comes as surprising as he was widely speculated to be the chief minister after Rupani resigned. An MLA from Bhuj, Nimaben Acharya is the new Speaker of the Gujarat Assembly.
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